Do children need school homework?
The second grade, almost all the homework was on the computer - in I-Ready and DreamBox. These are special educational programs that diagnose the level of preparedness of children and, in the form of video games, give them tasks appropriate to their level. In addition to assessments, parents receive printouts with diagrams of the child's progress.
Of course, my son liked to do it, and on our part it was necessary only to watch that he did not stay too long. But me, as well as other parents, somewhat worried that this increased the time that he spends in front of the computer and which is already difficult to limit.
Even in the United States, they like to give projects at home in schools, which must be done once a week or even a month. The most difficult thing was in the zero class (kindergarten), when monthly it was necessary to do some kind of artistic project. I, then an inexperienced mother of a schoolboy, remembered him on the night before the surrender, and we all panicked, wrote, glued and painted the whole family. Once, when performing the composition "Indian woman, who is hiding in flowers", I so stubbornly cut flowers from colored paper, that for a week I could not squeeze my right hand into a fist.
In the first class four times a week it was necessary to prepare with the child for dictation; once a month - hand over the list of books read; and two more times a week - to do simple projects.
All this requires parents to have good organizational skills, but if you forget something - not a problem. But for the task, not done a couple of times, the teacher will not scold the child and will not put a deuce. In the zero class at the parents' meeting, the class teacher urged us not to coerce children - the main thing is not to kill in them the desire to learn.
Themselves are based on the test results and the progress of the child. Also teachers, at least in the lower grades, do not cling to the corrections in the test. The main thing is that the answer should be correct.
Of course, my son liked to do it, and on our part it was necessary only to watch that he did not stay too long. But me, as well as other parents, somewhat worried that this increased the time that he spends in front of the computer and which is already difficult to limit.
Even in the United States, they like to give projects at home in schools, which must be done once a week or even a month. The most difficult thing was in the zero class (kindergarten), when monthly it was necessary to do some kind of artistic project. I, then an inexperienced mother of a schoolboy, remembered him on the night before the surrender, and we all panicked, wrote, glued and painted the whole family. Once, when performing the composition "Indian woman, who is hiding in flowers", I so stubbornly cut flowers from colored paper, that for a week I could not squeeze my right hand into a fist.
In the first class four times a week it was necessary to prepare with the child for dictation; once a month - hand over the list of books read; and two more times a week - to do simple projects.
All this requires parents to have good organizational skills, but if you forget something - not a problem. But for the task, not done a couple of times, the teacher will not scold the child and will not put a deuce. In the zero class at the parents' meeting, the class teacher urged us not to coerce children - the main thing is not to kill in them the desire to learn.
Themselves are based on the test results and the progress of the child. Also teachers, at least in the lower grades, do not cling to the corrections in the test. The main thing is that the answer should be correct.